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May 30, 2010 at 12:01 AMMay 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM

Today is Sunday, May 30, the 150th day of 2010. There are 215 days left in the year.

HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY On May 30, 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln. In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. In 1854, the territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established. In 1911, Indianapolis saw its first long-distance auto race; Ray Harroun was the winner. In 1937, 10 people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago. In 1958, unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1960, Soviet author and poet Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago) died at 70. In 1980, Pope John Paul II arrived in France on the first visit there by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the early 19th century. Ten years ago: President Bill Clinton arrived in Portugal as he opened a visit to Europe. Five years ago: American teenager Natalee Holloway, during a visit to Aruba, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men before disappearing; her fate remains unknown. One year ago: Internet sensation Susan Boyle placed second on Britain's Got Talent, with the dance troupe Diversity taking the top prize. THOUGHT FOR TODAY

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years, it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it, he must perish."